Which bike would you go with in Kona.
P5x or P5-6. The p5x is new for me but I’m finding it incredible heavy…
Objectively, the P5-6 is faster. The P5X is sexier. What’s your goal - looking good or being good?
Ben Hoffman has his choice and picks P5X for Kona.
Objectively, the P5-6 is faster. The P5X is sexier. What’s your goal - looking good or being good?
+1. I had a P5-6 for a while and very few bikes allowed me a more slippery position than it. The P5X certainly wasn’t one of those frames. With a 3d printed bike box I don’t think you lose any storage options to the P5X.
Also, NOT sexier IMO. Its fugly.
Didn’t Ben use the P3X specifically for the weight difference and not the 5?
Didn’t Ben use the P3X specifically for the weight difference and not the 5?
Not sure, but when I talked to him at the Team Zoot meeting at Kona in 2019 and asked him why he chose that bike he said because he likes the extra storage for a full and the ride is a little more comfortable due the slight give of the beam.
Take em both and sell the P5x to a kona cruise company for use as a boat anchor
That’s about the only thing it’s good for , except to demonstrate how gullible tricathaletes are in buying overpriced crap.
Take em both and sell the P5x to a kona cruise company for use as a boat anchor
That’s about the only thing it’s good for , except to demonstrate how gullible tricathaletes are in buying overpriced crap
Damn all those people buying what they like! These threads always attract an answer like this, it’s daft.
The P5x is still the fastest tri frame around… especially if you want to carry all your nutrition without aero penalty
Take em both and sell the P5x to a kona cruise company for use as a boat anchor
That’s about the only thing it’s good for , except to demonstrate how gullible tricathaletes are in buying overpriced crap
Geez salty much, or just jealous? Whilst not a light weight it’s still comparable to most of the other bikes at 9.9kgs…
https://bikerumor.com/close-new-cervelo-p5x-tri-superbike-plus-actual-weight/
Its a strange thing unique to triathlon where people seem to get bitter about other people buying stuff.
Besides the weight, what bike are you more comfortable with? Which is easier to pack up and put back together? Which is more aero (this may be the most important since the conditions can be challenging based on the wind, obviously).
Good luck.
Take em both and sell the P5x to a kona cruise company for use as a boat anchor
That’s about the only thing it’s good for , except to demonstrate how gullible tricathaletes are in buying overpriced crap
Damn all those people buying what they like! These threads always attract an answer like this, it’s daft.
It so true. There also seems to be an attitude that only true, dedicated athletes are worthy of buying high end stuff. Those dentists and physicians are just poseurs. Somehow there’s an imaginary bar that needs to be hurdled in order for someone to worthy enough to have a p5x or aero helmet or whatever. I’m solid MOP and I love my P3X, and my Endorphin Pros.
Take em both and sell the P5x to a kona cruise company for use as a boat anchor
That’s about the only thing it’s good for , except to demonstrate how gullible tricathaletes are in buying overpriced crap
Tell us you still ride a 1997 aluminum Cannondale without telling us you still ride a 1997 aluminum Cannondale
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Which bike would you go with in Kona.
P5x or P5-6. The p5x is new for me but I’m finding it incredible heavy…
If only someone had gone to the wind tunnel and answered this exact question for you. I mean how f*cking awesome would that be?
oh wait, someone did that
This report is awesome. Interesting to see the results. I just moved from a P5-6 to a P5-X. Still in the process of getting fit dialed, but love to see the data points.
We need an updated 2022 version with all the current disc brake models on the market!
This report is awesome. Interesting to see the results. I just moved from a P5-6 to a P5-X. Still in the process of getting fit dialed, but love to see the data points.
We need an updated 2022 version with all the current disc brake models on the market!
What I’d love to do is get 3-4 riders on 4-6 bikes, have the bikes fit to each rider, that’s ~12-24 bikes needed. Then test it so you can see how each bike does on each rider. Rank the bikes for each riders. If there were 3 riders you’d have 3 silos of rankings.
I suspect a couple of things.
- that you’d see a slightly different order for each rider
- That the top & bottom bikes would be the top & bottom for almost everyone
- That rotor choice makes a bigger difference than many other things.
Call it ~$10-12k in tunnel time + bikes.
The hardest part of the shootout was getting the bikes to fit so closely to each other. Kiley, along with Dan Kennison from Premier Bikes, did some seriously heavy lifting there. There is a reason, besides financial, no one has done something like this since.
This is funnie
I have and have had more “ super-bikes “ than anyone in here
Not much difference between em , but I love a new bike every year or so
Non of them will ever be a P5x due to its stupid weight and ridiculous design
Anyone who thinks these things are way faster than any other bike come in the stupid /gullible tricathalete believe any fancy marketing video genre
If these things are as fast as you above belive then why isn’t every pro riding one and also why are not all bike records getting smashed (both age and pro) by folks on a P5x.
Hey, I don’t have one and don’t care, but the data is that it isn’t really heavier and it is the fastest in Desert Dude’s testing.
Desert dude: could you provide more color on rotor choice?
Thanks in advance
Eric
This is funnie
I have and have had more “ super-bikes “ than anyone in here
Not much difference between em , but I love a new bike every year or so
Non of them will ever be a P5x due to its stupid weight and ridiculous design
Anyone who thinks these things are way faster than any other bike come in the stupid /gullible tricathalete believe any fancy marketing video genre
If these things are as fast as you above belive then why isn’t every pro riding one and also why are not all bike records getting smashed (both age and pro) by folks on a P5x
Wow. Maybe people have their own reasons for buying a specific bike? As the owner of a P3x, I think there are many superb design elements, it’s comfortable, it’s adjustable, and I like it. Given that the majority of air resistance is the rider, if I can comfortably be aero on a P3x, but perhaps not on a Speed Concept, it doesn’t really matter which one has marginally better numbers in the tunnel if I’m sitting up 40% of the time, does it? Do you think that maybe your strident opinions could be expressed more diplomatically? Not everyone with different taste to you is a moron, quite the opposite.